Family Night #1 - Go Hawaiian

We had our first Family Theme Night last night. I got the idea from Whittaker Woman. She does one once a week and instead of just having a family night, she makes a theme with it.

I thought it was a brilliant idea.

So we tried it out.

My goal was to come up with something that would be easy to do and wouldn't cost much to decorate with. We chose a "Hawaiian" theme because my daughter just got several grass skirts and leis for her birthday and we seemed to have some other fun things around that would go with that theme. The kids have also been really wanting pineapple lately, so I thought it would be fun to tie it all together.

Here is our table decorations. We used the pinapple, papaya, kiwi, shells, a sand bucket, a volcano and Nemo to decorate.





The kids and I made tissue paper and pipe cleaner flowers. They were fun and easy to make and we decorated all the chairs and table with them.

The kids also thought it would be fun to put the leis around each chair to make everything look even more festive.

We had pineapple, kiwi and papaya for dessert. My oldest son and I looked up Hawaiian parties online and found some games to pick from. He thought limbo would be fun so we played that while listening to hawaiian music.

Okay, so it wasn't officially Hawaiian music. It was the music from the VBS Outrigger Island.

But it worked.

Limbo limbo limBO

how low can you go....... how low can you go....

The highlight of the evening for everyone was the volcano. We already had the volcano from a science experiment a couple years ago. So we just added 2 tsp of baking soda in the volcano and then they slowly poured red tinted vinegar in with it.

It was almost as exciting as watching fireworks.

The kids got 2 turns each and they all say that was their favorite part of family night.

We ended the evening with all of us dancing to music.

Or if you graduated from a Baptist University, we were "functioning" to the music.

The kids really had a great time and we made some fun memories. I think the most important part was letting them help plan and decorate so they felt that it was their family night.

So there you have it. Our first themed family night. I think we are going to try to have one once a month.

You should try it. It's fun!